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Samsung

Samsung Series 5

Samsung Series 5 and 7 Slates: one part tablet, one part laptop, all Windows 8 - The Verge

I think I saw this movie. I don't think I like how it ended.

cyborg tissue

Researchers grow cyborg tissue around nanowires and transistors - The Verge

Teenage Synth

synth

Teenage Engineering reinvents the OP-1 synth with plastic, rubber bands, and a different vision for music - The Verge

Apple vs Samsung

The company spent most of the past month telling the jury that the iPhone was a revolution five years in the making, and that Samsung had taken just three months to copy it, without bearing any of the costs or risks involved. The jury clearly agreed — and most importantly, the jury agreed that all of Apple's patents are valid, even after Samsung spent hours trying to demonstrate prior art.

Apple decisively wins Samsung trial: what it means - The Verge

That Must Have Hurt

Jim Cramer Pt. 2 – The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – 03/12/09 – Video Clip - Comedy Central

UPDATE: Comedy Central seems to have pulled the video from the internet.

Apple vs Samsung

Apple vs Samsung Apple vs Samsung

Live: Apple's closing arguments in Apple vs. Samsung – The Verge

UPDATE: Consider for a moment that this graphic could have been laid outed so many ways but: a) it just looks nice, it's got desgin and; b) note that the iPhone is in the 'light', and big bad Samsung is in the dark.

Key Technology

thin touch

Synaptics ThinTouch and ForcePad hands-on: thin, smart alternatives to the traditional touchpad and keyboard - The Verge

Universal Healthcare

1) It saves money. Every other advanced democracy covers virtually all of its people at a cost relative to national income of something like 60% of what the United States pays. That's just wasted money—money that could buy other things.

Universal Healthcare: A Conservative Reform – The Daily Beast

Ouch

Hillary meme

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Original image by Diana Walker for Time

Starting From Behind

Voter identification laws were unevenly implemented within states.

In the states that only ask first-time voters to show any form of identification (including a letter addressed to them), one-quarter of all voters stated they would not have been allowed to vote had they not produced a photo ID.

African Americans and Hispanics were asked to show "picture ID" more often than Whites – 70% for African Americans, 65% for Hispanics, and 51% for Whites.

2008 Survey of the Performance of American Elections - Mother Jones